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crosstie

crosstie is the alternative form of cross-tie.

Meaning of cross-tie

Noun

cross-tie (plural cross-ties)

  1. A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
    • The track consists of relatively light running rails spiked and bolted to cross-ties, with a central steel rack securely bolted to the ties by steel angles.1954 November, Robert F. Legget, “The Mount Washington Cog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 790

Forms of crosstie

pluralcrossties

Questions about crosstie

What is crosstie the alternative form of?
Crosstie is the alternative form of cross-tie.

Words near crosstie in the dictionary

  1. crosstalked
  2. crosstalking
  3. crosstalks
  4. crossteam
  5. crosstide
  6. crosstie
  7. crossties
  8. crosstolerance
  9. crosstolerances
  10. crosstolerant
  11. crosstown

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crosstie (page history and authors); cross-tie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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